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January 2016

January 03, 2016

Girls at the Altar: Decompressing A Condensed Symbol

Yesterday, Michelle Arnold, a Patheos colleague, wrote in defense of altar service by girls and...

October 2015

October 01, 2015

On Abstaining from Communion

The other week at Mass, I remained in the pew when everyone else got up...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

“Without Getting All Freakish About It”

This is a story about saints and signs, and how the right word to the...

July 08, 2015

Moral Injury Shows the Limits of Forgiveness

Among veterans of the Global War on Terror, the conscience is alive and kicking. The...

April 2015

April 27, 2015

Hooray for Cheap Grace!

After I flew back to Phoenix and claimed the keys to my new apartment, one...

January 2014

January 27, 2014

My Eucharistic Breakfast

Last night, for the first time in many months, I took a drink. Beneath the...

October 2013

October 15, 2013

Who Moved My Chiesa: A Corporate Casualty’s Guide to Getting Along with Priests

Meghan and I are about the same age, but for several years, scarcely a day...

October 04, 2013

Fear of An Ambitious Laity

"Bean-counting" is a dead metaphor for most people, but a few years ago, on retreat,...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

The Church and the Cracked Kettle

My parish's associate pastor comes from the Phillipines. At Sunday Mass, I sit only about...

July 2013

July 12, 2013

How It Feels to Be Received Like Christ

The first thing I noticed about the vocational discernment retreat was the median age of...

July 10, 2013

Francis’ Pontificate: No Rest for the Aesthetic-Minded?

You've got to hand it to Katrina Fernandez. Yesterday on the Crescat blog, she really...

April 2013

April 07, 2013

Broken Silence

On Saturday afteroons, there's a special stillness in the air of churches, a vacuum like...

February 2013

February 11, 2013

Father of Mine: A Lenten Reflection

If you grew up in an average occidental family, chances are excellent that at some...

February 02, 2013

Cardinal Mahony: Couldn’t Happen to a Nicer Guy

In the summer of 1945, following a three-week trial, a jury convicted Maréchal Philippe Pétain...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Goodness, Holiness and Fr. Groeschel

In an oft-quoted line from a German play, a character says, "When I hear the...

June 2012

June 14, 2012

“I Wish I Could Quit You”

Last week, National Catholic Reporter published an essay by Joe Orso titled "The Power of...

May 2012

May 19, 2012

Fr. Williams and the Grind of Celibacy

They say you know you're getting old when cops start looking like kids. I say...

May 01, 2012

A Confession About Confessions

It's a shame I wasn't in a church with an open confessional last Saturday. I...

April 2012

April 12, 2012

Another Priest Weighs in Against Blessing Kids

After reading Fr. Cory Sticha's opinion piece on blessing kids in the Communion line, I...

April 01, 2012

And I Saw the Priest Dance

Liturgical dancing! Even to speak the words means stirring the passions of anyone who believes...

March 2012

March 16, 2012

Barbara Johnson and the Quality of Mercy

Okay, here's a list of the angles related to the Fr. Guarnizo controversy I'm not...

November 2011

November 12, 2011

Would You Like Some Precious Blood with That, Sir?

I've found at least one advantage in having the Most Reverend Thomas J. Olmsted as...

October 2011

October 31, 2011

The Accents of Holiness

I thought all Irish-born American priests were dead and gone, surviving solely on celluloid --...

September 2011

September 14, 2011

When Does Fundraising Become a Shakedown? — UPDATED!

Since yesterday, when news first broke of the conflict between Bishop Zurek of Amarillo and...

September 13, 2011

A Lesson from Fr. Pavone: How to Behave on the Carpet

When I saw, on the Anchoress Blog, that Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life...

August 2011

August 29, 2011

How to Really Give a Good Sermon

This week, via video, an America Magazine commentator plugs Fr. Roy Shelly's formula for a...

August 16, 2011

A Thundering Squadron of Cassocks

This title barely qualifies as a pun. Cassock, the name for the clerical garment with...

August 05, 2011

Clerical Narcissism: Myth or Mess?

"Narcissist" is the new n-word. Unmatched for versatility, it can mean everything from "won't text...

July 2011

July 08, 2011

Who Is John Galt? John Corapi, Of Course!

Yesterday, I noted approvingly that Fr. Gerard Sheehan, Fr. John Corapi's SOLT superior, condemned Corapi...

June 2011

June 22, 2011

Corapi Resigns Alaska Governorship

"I'm not a quitter," insisted the bearded priest-turned talk-radio host in his famous stentorian basso....

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